Project Grant R21AP10291

The Fiscal Year 2022 RESTORE Mitigation Program Grant of $4,076,320 was awarded by the Department of the Treasury's Departmental Offices to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on September 30, 2022. The grant funding will support three projects under the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States program (CFDA 21.015) until September 29, 2026. The three projects aim to mitigate harm to fish, wildlife and natural...

This Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Project Grant award of $931,402 to Trout Unlimited, Inc., in partnership with the Montana Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP) and the Clark Fork Coalition, will fund the design of infrastructure improvements at ten irrigation diversion sites in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin in western Montana. The project aims to provide fish and recreational boat passage, screen irrigation ditches, and improve...

The Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council will provide stream condition, habitat, and wildlife inventory, assessment, and restoration services in the Trinity River watershed under a $177,327.89 cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region. The award, issued on October 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2024, will support products and services aligned with the Threatened and Endangered...

This $333,333.00 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will fund the planning activities needed to construct a boat ramp and parking area at Onion Creek Park on the Colorado River in Texas. The grant, awarded on July 15, 2024, supports activities designed to restore, conserve, manage, or enhance sport fish populations and public access to recreational fishing opportunities. The Texas Parks and...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $299,668 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. The funding will support education, outreach, and the development of a watershed restoration plan for the lower Priest River watershed in northern Idaho. The project aims to preserve critical habitat for the endangered bull trout and address the impacts of climate change-driven drought and reduced river flows in the basin. Trout Unlimited...

This Project Grant award, funded by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program (CFDA 15.664), will pay for the transfer of 3,750 acre-feet of senior priority (1864) water to the tributaries of Upper Klamath Lake, Upper Klamath Lake, and Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in 2024. The water transfer will deliver cold, clean water to Upper Klamath Lake, reduce effluent flows into the lake, and add water to the...

This $2,991,032.56 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration's Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) will fund infrastructure upgrades to signal systems along Trinity Blvd and North Beach Street in Texas. The project will replace and add new signal heads with retroflective bordered backplates, install new flashing yellow arrow signal heads and detection, and replace regulatory and street name signs. These improvements, which are scheduled to be completed by...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $1,505,814 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. for a project to remove the Breached Cannondale Dam on the Norwalk River in Connecticut. The project will reconnect over 6 miles of stream habitat for priority migratory fish species such as sea lamprey, alewife, blueback herring, American eel, American shad, and gizzard shad. Additional work will target the next upstream...

This U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service Formula Grant award in the amount of $1,333,333.00 will provide funding to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to expand and renovate the existing concession park boating facilities in Jacksonville, Texas. The project elements include dredging, boat ramp, swimming fishing pier, docks, fueling station, access road, parking lot, restroom, utilities, signage, and erosion control stabilization. This award is funded through the Sport...

The Cooperative Agreement award F25AC00371, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), will provide $1,300,000 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to implement the Upper Clark Fork Fish Passage Project in Montana. This project aims to reconnect 27 miles of critical bull trout habitat in the upper Clark Fork River by constructing fish passage improvements and installing fish screens at four remaining irrigation diversions...